10/31/10

The unsustainability of western eating habits

Came across this quote on another Aussie female vegan's blog, and for me it just emphasises the ridiculousness of our cultural values in terms of diet. I mean, we are eating ourselves into massive environmental change and collapse, and for what? There is no reason we can't live sustainably off native and local fresh fruit and vegetable produce. When are we going to realise that our current practices are unsustainable, or will we only realise when it is too late?

“We kill billions of wild animals to protect the animals we eat. We then destroy our environment to feed the animals we eat. We spend more time, money and resources fattening the animals we eat, than we do feeding humans who are actually starving. The greatest irony is that after all the expense of raising these animals, we eat them, and they kill us… And instead of recognizing this insanity, we torture and kill millions of other animals trying to find a cure to the diseases caused by eating animals in the first place. When it comes to eating, humans are without question the dumbest animals on the planet.”
- Rave Diet Eating DVD with Mike Anderson, Cure Cancer Naturally

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